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| SBA History | Calendar | Sacramento, 1947-48 | The Future | 50th Anniversary |
The founding of California State University, Sacramento was not the only event of note in 1947. Here are a few other notable events. |
| 1947 | |
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The Servicemen's Readjustment Act (G. I. Bill of Rights), passed in 1944, helped over 1 million veterans enroll in colleges - 1947 was the peak year of enrollment. |
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India becomes independent from Great Britain and is partitioned into India and Pakistan |
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Frances Steele reconstructs the laws of Hammurabi (18th century BC) |
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Hoover Commission is formed to correct government inefficiency!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;-) |
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von Neumann develops EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) with the ability to store programs in memory |
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Land introduces the Polaroid camera for instant photographs |
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Libby develops radio-carbon dating |
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Scrolls dating from approximately 22 BC to AD 100 are discovered in Wadi Qumran, near the Dead Sea |
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April 28 |
Thor Heyerdahl sails the raft "KonTiki" from Peru to Polynesia |
April 30 |
Boulder Dam became Hoover Dam |
May 11 |
Tubeless Tires announced |
June 23 |
Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Act) passed by Congress over President Truman's veto |
July 18 |
Presidential Succession Act enacted |
July 25 |
National Security Act unifies all brances of the armed services into the Department of Defense |
October 14 |
Chuck Yeager flys the X-1, a rocket-powered airplane designed by L. Bell, making the first supersonic flight |
October 20 |
House UnAmerican Activities Committee opens hearings into alleged Communist influence and infiltration in the Movie Industry |
October 27 |
"You Bet Your Life" premiered on ABC - starring Groucho Marks |
November 2 |
Howard Hughes flies the "Spruce Goose" for the first (and only) time |
November 20 |
Princess Elizabeth, heir to the English throne, marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh |
December 23 |
the Transistor invented by Bardeen, Brattain and Shockley at Bell Lab. |
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